Ugh this comment again. Seems like every article like this has people in the comments who are disconnected from reality.
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EVs and public transit are not mutually exclusive. Investing in EVs is less expensive and gives more-immediate results. You’re suggesting everyone just toughs it out for a decade or more.
This comment again because it’s correct. The speed of building out public transit is a political problem, not a technical one. People don’t switch to EVs for high-minded environmental reasons, they switch because they’re cheaper to run. And if they’re cheaper, the Jevons Paradox means that people will drive a lot more. We’ll double down on car infrastructure, and all of the other environmental destruction it brings.
EVs will not save us, and if the goal is public transit and human-oriented cities, we need to just build public transit and human-oriented cities. The political and legacy infrastructure barriers are only going to get bigger in the EV future.
You’re so right. Blanketing the country in transit infrastructure could happen in a day if it weren’t for those pesky politicians! And everyone would immediately use it and there would be no more ICE cars on the road. My bad.
Who said anything about a day? Obviously, it takes time, but we have to start, and transitioning away from electric cars is not going to magically be any easier than ICE cars.
Ugh this comment again. Seems like every article like this has people in the comments who are disconnected from reality.
EVs and public transit are not mutually exclusive. Investing in EVs is less expensive and gives more-immediate results. You’re suggesting everyone just toughs it out for a decade or more.
This comment again because it’s correct. The speed of building out public transit is a political problem, not a technical one. People don’t switch to EVs for high-minded environmental reasons, they switch because they’re cheaper to run. And if they’re cheaper, the Jevons Paradox means that people will drive a lot more. We’ll double down on car infrastructure, and all of the other environmental destruction it brings.
EVs will not save us, and if the goal is public transit and human-oriented cities, we need to just build public transit and human-oriented cities. The political and legacy infrastructure barriers are only going to get bigger in the EV future.
You’re so right. Blanketing the country in transit infrastructure could happen in a day if it weren’t for those pesky politicians! And everyone would immediately use it and there would be no more ICE cars on the road. My bad.
Who said anything about a day? Obviously, it takes time, but we have to start, and transitioning away from electric cars is not going to magically be any easier than ICE cars.
Not mutually exclusive endeavors.
No, but we’re not doing one of them.